Yes, hacks is a Scrabble word!

Verb

1. Cut with a hacking tool

2. Be able to manage or manage successfully

3. Cut away

4. Kick on the arms

5. Kick on the shins

6. Fix a computer program piecemeal until it works

7. Significantly cut up a manuscript

8. Cough spasmodically

Noun

1. One who works hard at boring tasks

2. A politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends

3. A mediocre and disdained writer

4. A tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil

5. A car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money

6. An old or over-worked horse

7. A horse kept for hire

8. A saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.